THE DEMONHUNTER AND THE RATFOLK #2

2011-01-14T00:12:00Z

The ratfolk led me to the central temple of the godess Yathenan, by a small but hotly defended margin the most preeminent of the High Five. It was an ediface of interlocking stone buildings, painstakingly raised around the central courtyards high above the surrounding town, and riddled with shining halls filled with reverence, and twisting passages filled with bickering priests.

There were a couple of guards in front of the big archway, and I eyed them nervously. Petitioners, students and devotees were trickling in and out, but demon hunters and gods didn't always get on well. Everyone agreed there was a very very clear line between a demon and god, but no-one agreed exactly where it actually was, and there had been unfortunate clashes in the past. But Yathenan welcomed everyone into her temple -- or so the Jotunheimic inscription above the arch said.

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THE DEMONHUNTER AND THE RATFOLK #2